General Orders, 4 May 1780
General Orders
Head Quarters Morristown Thursday May 4th 1780
Parole Freehold Countersigns Fez Foye
[Officers] Of the Day Tomorrow[:] Lieutenant Colonel Commandant Wessenfels[,] Major J. Moore[,] Brigade Major Stark’s Brigade
Lord Stirling’s and the Pennsylvania Divisions give the Main Guard and picquet tomorrow.
A Serjeant Corporal and twelve rank & file from Lord Stirling’s Division for fatigue to be sent to the Adjutant General’s quarters Tomorrow morning.
As part of the Army were absent when the General order relative to the pay of Officers sent on Command was publish’d on the 18th of September last the General repeats the Order.
The little attention paid to the Resolve of Congress of the 4th of September last published in the General Orders of the 25th1 and the number of accompts exhibited on Certificates repugnant to that Resolve; and the order accompanying it oblige the Commander in Chief to declare that henceforth no Warrants shall be given for payment of any Accompts produced in consequence of that Resolve unless the officers applying have been detached by a special order from himself or commanding officer of a department. The mode of obtaining such order will be by a Certificate from the Major General or Brigadier from whose Division or Brigade the officer is to be sent specifying the nature and necessity of the service to be performed.
Varick transcript, DLC:GW.
Ensign Jeremiah Greenman of the 2d Rhode Island Regiment wrote in his diary entry for this date that he “was mustered & inspected by his Excellincy” and Major General Steuben (, 171; see also General Orders, 1 May).
1. The general orders for 25 Sept. 1778 announced a congressional resolution that provided an officer $3 per day for expenses when engaged in business beyond his usual duties at a distance from camp (see , 12:878).